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VOLUME IX
uA GXtANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREG02T,
, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1909.
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FACTORY RLN
OVER TONIGHT
SlCFEST ACRE YIELD IN HISTORY
OF LOCAL SUGAR FACTORY
IS RECORDED
JAP EMPLOYES WILL TAKE
IEATE FROM VALLEY NOW.
Facts and Data Concerning Output
This Year Belug Compiled Cut
ting Ended Last Evening.
' fgho data that Is now being compll
r, 5 tijwtt Bhow the biggest output of
l Grande Rondo sugar from a stand
: jolnt of acre yield. The Amalgamated
fugar Factory will close its run this
Evening, to stand idle again until next
,iar. While ' Superintendent Thomas
"and Field Manager Bramwell have as
yet not footed up the totals, enough
facts are now at hand to convince the
management' that the yield per acre
this year is greater than ever h-
fore. . f
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IF JUSTICE
COXntTED OF WHOLESALE MUR
DER AM) SKMEXCED.
Fiend Who Murdered Entire Family Is
Given Quick Justice.
Bluefield, W. Va' Nov. 27. Howard
Little was found guilty and sentence!
to death for the murder of six persons
near Hurley. He did not make an de
fense. He was convicted for th ur
ging of George Meadows, Mrs. Me lows
yrixneir tnree children and Nettie
jJAe. aged seventy. This was one
iof the most brutal murders that has
ever occurred In the historr of i
state. ,
The trial beg nThursdav anil a
rwdlct was returned today. The couit
oouse was guarded by a hi fr.
iSpecial deputies as It was feared thot
the mountaineers Mends, of whom lie
nas many, would make an attain, of
MCM. It was quick work of ;be law
and the immediate sentence seemed to
be perfectly sat.Bfartnrr in ..
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The remarkable futi t
, lu i;if
that the murder was tructci to the
prisoner by a bloody cent which he
RAP
WORK
T 7 gave t0 a newsl)v for
A PTer conta,n,n an account of the
T'ff fy He will be execute,! in
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f iwinccnair at Rlcninond, Va.
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TONIGHT
6 to WO'clocK
ALL 25c 30c and 40c
CM DIE S
Wclb
Two Faries from
be in charge
NEIGHBORS
BUILD BAR11;
I. F. CHENAULT RECIPIENT OF
FATOB FROM FRIENDS.
Quiet, Old Fashioned Barn Raisin; In
THj Yesieraar. ,
About twenty of the Intimate friends
and relatives of I. E. Chenault gath
ered at the Chenualt farm yesterday
and raised the frame of his new barn
and the day partook of the nature of
an old fashioned barn raising with
the exception that the day was spent
quietly Hilarity was forgone out of re
spect to the memory of the late Mrs.
Chenault The event was an experssion
of the kindness with which Mr. Che
nault is regarded by, his neighbors. A
fine chicken dinner was served.
The structure is BO feet long and
30 feet high at the center. The frame
was completed yesterday and Mr.
Chenault cays that with this great
"lift" to start with, he can soon have
one of the 'finest barns in the valley
completed. . , . .
I-
IMST LAW
FORMER CABINET MEMBER COMES
TO 7TS DEFENSE.
John D. ArcWlboId's Attack Resented
By Old Secretary.
Cleveland, Nov. 27. Former Secre
tary of the Interior James R. Garfield
today answered the statement of John
D. Archbold, that the St Louis de
cision, against the Standard Oil Co.,
proved the Sherman anti-trust - law
as being most unsatisfactory and that
decision from It would probably re
sult In an appeal.. Garfield in his re
ply, says:
"The statement has been made re
cently that the St. Louis decision In
the Standard Oil cases were barren
of results, and that this proved that
the Sherman anti-trust law was un
satisfactory. Such Interpretation Is
entirely unjustifiable. It is true that
President Roosevelt pointed out that
the law was unsatisfactory in certain
points and urged a change, but only
did so on the condition that the gov
ernment be given direct control over
all industrial corporations similar to
that exercised at this time over rail
roads and.other common carriers. The
court fully sustained our contention
that the law seeks to prohibit .the
result of unfair competition and mo
nopolies in the restraint of trade."
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Fairyland will
of this Dept.
DEFENDSANT
ZELAYA THOUGHT TO HAVE
EVEN FOSSIBLE THAT REVOLUTIONIST HAS KILLED UNCLE JAM
VICE CONSUL-LATER HISSING SEVERAL DAYS
REPORT WELL FOUNDED
AMERICANS WHIPPED AND YOKE D LIKE OXEN BY THE BRUTE ZE
LAYA, ACCORDING TO PASSENGERS COMING TO NEW OR.
LEANS PRISON STORY IS CORROBORATED ZELAYA
V NEEDS A GOOD DRUBBING.
New Orleans, 'Nov. 27. Dispatches
received today states that ', American
Vice Consul Calldera at Managua, has
been thrown into prison by President
Zelaya. . . f
Consul Calldera has been missing
for soma time and It is helleved that
he has been imprisoned. Today's mes
saye declared that Zelaya has thrown
him into prison because he wants to
hide from the Americans and espec
ially the American government, tha
cruelties incident to the execution of
Cannon and Grace. ..
- Passengers on the steamer Parls
mlna declare they were captured in
neutral territory, yoked together like
pxen and a hundred pound weight was
tied to each yoke. The men besldos be
lng yoked together were whipped and
batn with cat-o-nine tails. ?
. New Orleans, Nov. 27. A cablegram
was received this afternoon from Blue
,flcHa announcing- that'CaldeahlV
succeeded In communicating with the
state department. His report bears out
the stories of barbarous cruelties that
were inflicted on the two Americans,
Groce and Cannon. He said that the
report that was forwarded by Consul
Caldera several days ago Is true. The
whearabout of Consul Caldera is ab
solutely unknown and the moBt stren
uous efforts to locate him have proved
unavailing.
New Orleans, Nov. 27. Advices have
been reeclved at the local consulate
from Blueflelds indicating that a cri
sis is at hand in the affairs of Nicara
gua. Numerous rumors are to the
effect that Managua has fallen r and
that President Zelaya's troops have
been forced to surrender to the forces
of Estrada. There is no confirmation
however, of this report. Friends of
Zelaya declared that this report has
BATTLE
SEATTLE
Seattle. Nov. 27. The morning ses
sion of the Cunningham coal land case
was devoted almost entirely to "a
series of squabbles between the at
torneys. The squabbles were not over
anything In particular and far as
could be ascertained had no bearing
on the question In hand whatever.
IN DIVORCE
V That her huspand read to her when
it was against her will of a man mur
dering his wife and burying her in a
lime box where he body was decom
posed and forthwith had a barrel of
lime and a box similar to the one In
the story put Into the woodshed, and
then in "studied diabolical and fiend
ish threats" Intimated that she would
meet with a Bimilar fate ir she was
not good, are among the sensational
allegations set forth In the answer
to the divorce milt brouaht bv Mr.
mm
STRANGE COUNTERCHARGE
VICE
CONSUL
been circulated for the purpose of af
fectlng other Central American re
publics, particularly 'that of Costa
Rica. It Is claimed that a revolution
in Cost Rica will be declared against
President Jiminez the moment that
President Zelaya falls.
The reports declare that only the
Imprisonment ox Caldera could keep
Estrada's forces from finding the vice-
consul. Castrlllo, a representative of
Estrada's government at Washington,
has been asked to assist in finding
Caldera. Friends ' of Castrlllo declare
he has received advices which causes
him to believe Caldera is held as a
prisoner or poBslbly shot by the or
ers of Zelaya. The reports from the
Interior via Blueflelds today are very
meager but it is said that the condi
tions in and around Managua are prac
tically unchanged.
Mother 6 dear Name.
Hempstead, Texas, -Nov. 27. Heart
broken by the charges made by the
agents of Zelaya to the effp'-t. that her
son Leonard Groce, was executed be
cause of alleged nefarious undertak
ings against the Zelayan government,
Mrs. L. W. Groce today indicted a plan
by means of which she hopes to clear
her aon's name of these charces. In a
letter dispatched to Dr. Luis Sequira,
Consul General of Estrada'B provis
ional government in this city, she
said: "Zelaya and his neonle are Irv
ing to convince the word that my
son was a spy and an acJenturer. I
beg of you in the name of humanity
to dp everything that your position
and power gives you to give to our
government at Washington the abso
lutely true particulars of his death
and all of the events Ieading'up to it
I want the peope of this country to
know the truth."
AT THE
COAL HEARING
and the only deduction to be derived
from it is that the attorneys are try
ing to make the public believe tn'at the
caBe Is being prosecuted with great
vigor. In other words the attorneys
appeared to be simply posing for the
gallery applause. There was nothing
of Importance developed in today's
session on either side of the case
STIPULATION
filed the answer this morning. She
aliio asks that McCumber be placed
under bonds to keep the peace and
not kill her urlng the pendency of
the suit.
Among the other deeds of cruelty
alleged by Mrs. -McCumber are v'
swearlng at her and cur'' !er
adopted son. She say that he chased
her out of the house at Perry one cold
winter night and compelled her to go
forth In her bare feet and nlfel.t
gown to seek shelter in the hotel. A
dismissal of McCumber's suit Is asked
WELL CASING HERE
B A. We&t Receives Shipment For A
Well near this City
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R. A. West has received the six inch
casing for a deep well to be driven
on the S. P. Newhaidt farm, four
miles east of this city. It is the lnten
tlon to go down about 150 feet and
possibly deeper. It Is desired to se
cure an artlslan Sow. The well at th
shipping point of the Wilcox Lumber
Company situated about two miles far
ther east Is own only 165 feet and a
strong flow has been secured. During
the present two weeks the flow has
nearly doubled what It was at the be
ginning. ; .',
FIND FRAMES
OF BIG MEN
WORKMEN UNEARTH GRUESOME
SIGHT IN EXCAYATIOX.
Thought to be the Bones or Ancient
Warriors Burled In Castle.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov. 27.
More than a dozen skeletons were un
earthed today by workmen who were
excavating for a-heating plant cn the
site of the famous old "Palace" of
Santa Fe, and were pronounced , to
day by archaeloglsts to be relics of
Indians who occupied this place some
two hundred years ago. The skeletons
go to show that the natives were ex
tremely huge In stature. Many izrpll-
ments of primitive warfare lay In the
ruins.. Local savants who took poses
slon of the skeletons advance the the
ory that they were the remains of pris
oners taken In war by the Santa Fe
Indians who had been killed and bur
ied beneath the "palace" by their cap
tors. . ' ' . . '.' ,,: .'.
IS
NEAR DEATH
NOTED NORWEGIAN DRAMATIST
05 DEATHBED.
Relatives Crew te Bedside Expecting
Death XoraenUrllj.
Paris, Not. 27. The family of the
noted dramatist and novelist, BJorn-
HAND
BJORNSON
New Leather, New Shapes, New Prices t
We Have the largest, the best, the most
j-to-dats line of Ladies Hand Bas and'
Purses ever shown in La Grande. .We have
the Alligator, Patent Leather, Real Seal, Wal-
rusand a line ot imported leathers that we i
know are good, aqd of the latest styles. We
are offering these goods a 4 5! :st reasonable
pricet for this class of goods. ; Our goods are J
right and we know the prices' are. Let us
s now you while our line
HILLIS DRUG
LA GRANDE, - - . -
DIM! AT
TILLAMOOK
LIFEBOAT WITH SHIPWRECKED
PASSENGERS THOUGHT TO
HAVE CAPSlZFn
THREE BROWNED WHEN THE
LIFE BOATS LEAYES SHIP.
One Boat With Nine Reaches Shore
But at a Late Hour Captain and
Eleven Men Missing.
Tillamook, Oregon, Nov. 27. A lif
boat containing eleven persons in
cluding Captain Snyder from the
wrecked Argo, is believed at this
time to have been drowned during
their efforts to reach the shore at (
nine o'clock last night. The Argo
gave undisputed evidence of going to
the bottom and thobe on board im
mediately took tc life boats although
a heavy seat was tunning and the risk
very great. . , :
A boat containing Mate Johnson and
nine others was picked up by the
steamer Oshkosh, which has been
patrolling the secetje of the disaster -since
last night It is believed that if ,
the captains boat load were safe on
shore that they would have been heard
from by this time as the Argo went
on the rocks yesterday.
There were three passengers lost
from the lifeboat while attempting to
make the shore.
The Argo afterwards slid off the
bar and stood Just outside awaiting
assistance. At nine o'clock the ship
commenced to go down and the cap
tain and crew with the passengers
took to the two lifeboats. One of these
boats was picked up by the Oshkosh
and the other is thought to have either
been driven to sea or dashed on the
rocks. . "., "
ajerne BJornson,; , Norwegian, have
gathered at his bedside at the hotel
Wagram, fearing that the noted writer '
of fiction will die before night He is
suffering from a stroke of. paralysis
and is afflicted from the waist down.
BJornson has written, and dramatlz-'
ed some of the "most reajistfe V and
thrilling scenes of the great Northland
of any man-i living. In fact it has
been through the pn and brain of this -man
that world at large has had their .
opportunity of selng the mysteries of
the, midnight sun and the wild fjords .
oi Norway. , , ,
BIG BANK CLOSED;
Sencer lnd.. Nov 27rhe-vpTivate
bank, Beem Berden, .of tfclp.flty, one
of the largest in this part of the state
haa closed'lts Qw. by, border of the'
auditor.
BAGS
is complete.
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